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Location: Eastern Ontario | What's your take on daylight savings and does it occur where you live?
i'm really not a fan and would be quite happy if sundown came an hour earlier.
When I first started muskie fishing I would go early morning and caught a few fish but was always burnt out when magic time rolled around.After a couple of years it didn't matter to me if I wasn't out before 11 am between 12 and 2 always seemed good then often a lull till evening. Now that i'm spending most of my time on the Larry waiting till after 10 pm for dark packing up and driving an hour home is interfering with my beauty rest. Maybe I should go back to fishing 5 minutes from home but I'm really liking St. Larry
Lets do away with daylight savings. |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | horsehunter - 3/4/2019 4:46 PM
What's your take on daylight savings and does it occur where you live?
i'm really not a fan and would be quite happy if sundown came an hour earlier.
When I first started muskie fishing I would go early morning and caught a few fish but was always burnt out when magic time rolled around.After a couple of years it didn't matter to me if I wasn't out before 11 am between 12 and 2 always seemed good then often a lull till evening. Now that i'm spending most of my time on the Larry waiting till after 10 pm for dark packing up and driving an hour home is interfering with my beauty rest. Maybe I should go back to fishing 5 minutes from home but I'm really liking St. Larry
Lets do away with daylight savings.
The last musky I caught wasn't wearing a watch. |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Hiya,
I'd say I'm on the fence with this one...
With the later sundown time, and families vacationing like mad during summer, many families will head in about an hour or so before sundown so the kids can enjoy the campfire, smores, and the younger ones off to bed. This to me is the most wonderful time on the water as recreational traffic is down, leaving it quiet during prime times.
It'd be interesting to see if this would change with doing away with Daylight savings time. It may do nothing, or it may keep families on the water during that wonderful prime time.
I get going home earlier as you say, though...but in some ways, it's somewhat relative to when you wake up and potentially a work schedule. If retired, this would be no issue...but for those who work, it could be a big difference.
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Location: oswego, il | I enjoy it getting dark early. Very hard to find places open to eat after fishing in the summer. Same with a resort that serves food by the time you get in they are done.
The only place I have trouble with it is Indiana. In the past few years they observe it some of it is eastern, some central. The wander state wanders what time it is.:-) |
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| It SUCKS!! |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | make it go away. Best excuse for it used to be that it was 'for the farmers'. I never could figure that one out. m |
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| Daylight savings is Great! More time in the evening to get out on the water and fish. There is no reason not to like it unless you just like waking up earlier in the morning to get on the water at dawn. Daylight savings gives me time to fish after work, and it's not like they made the day an hour longer, they just shift the time-frame. Daylight still lasts the same time :D. |
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Location: Des Plaines, IL | Love the short John Oliver Last Week Tonight piece on Daylight Savings here. |
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| I’m sort of remembering that it had to do with kids going to school in the dark?? In any event I like it. For me, I like coming off the water for a dinner break around Five, then going back out till the bitter end. Then I don’t need a food service, just a bar stool and a bed. |
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| My uncle's chickens don't lay as many eggs during DST I guess they like it when the sun goes down earlier in the day. |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Pepper - 3/5/2019 10:52 AM
My uncle's chickens don't lay as many eggs during DST I guess they like it when the sun goes down earlier in the day.
Don't they lay eggs while on roost?
More roosting time in winter vs summer, so more eggs maybe? Not due to Daylight savings time?
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Location: Elk Grove Village, IL & Phillips, WI | Personally, I like the extra hour of light in summer. Nice having twilight till 10 o'clock. |
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Location: new richmond, wi. & isle, mn | KenK - 3/5/2019 11:28 AM
Personally, I like the extra hour of light in summer. Nice having twilight till 10 o'clock. Me too! I wish it just stayed at DST. |
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Location: Iowa | Same here. I like it getting dark later. |
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Location: Ortonville | 7ovr50 - 3/5/2019 6:14 AM
It SUCKS!!
Yep.
It sucks from Michigan. |
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| I dislike standard time. Wish the sun went down later at all times of the year |
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Location: Northern Illinois | I don't care. I'm retired.  |
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| DST is done for children who have to walk to school during the colder darker months. They matter more. |
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| NPike - 3/7/2019 12:36 AM
DST is done for children who have to walk to school during the colder darker months. They matter more.
Standard time is colder, darker months. |
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Location: Alexandria, MN | I work long, day shift hours. Quite often in the winter, I go to work in the dark and come home in the dark, so doing away with standard time would be just fine by me. But really, just stick with one or the other either way, and stop messing with people's internal clocks. |
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